Mark Davis

Union Pacific is accused of negligence in a lawsuit filed by the family of a Glenview couple who died when a freight train derailed this week and caused a bridge to collapse.

The suit contends the railroad failed to properly maintain and inspect the track around the overpass. Lawyers for the family of Burton and Zorine Lindner scoffed at the company's suggestion that the heat was responsible for creating kinks in the rails.

"I don't care how hot it was, trains aren't supposed to fly off the tracks and crush innocent people," attorney Michael LaMonica said at a news conference this afternoon.

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